Christine is a news reporter on a large metropolitan radio station. A source she has used in the past wants to give her information about an unsafe condition at a school but asks that she wait one week to report on it so he can check whether the school is intentionally ignoring the issue. She agrees, but then she blasts the schools for their incompetence on her broadcast the next morning, making her informant angry and distrustful. In this case, Christine’s relationship with her informant is not ethical because ______.

A. she did not pay the informant for his information
B. the informant had no right to ask her to delay her report
C. schools are protected from negative media publicity
D. it is not mutually beneficial to her and the informant

D. it is not mutually beneficial to her and the informant